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Article Submission Guidelines

Our goal for this site is to have the best possible relevant content.  If you feel you have unique, fresh, compelling content to share, please Contact Us.  We expect and allow this content to have valuable external links to other websites and include images. 

Unique Content

The search engines hate duplicate content and so do we.  We realize that you may be re-posting content that already appears on another website.  If you do this, it is critical that the content is edited so that it can easily be distinguished from the original content.  In some cases we recommend that your past a unique 3-4 sentence synopsis of the original article followed by a link to that article. 

Fresh Content

Relevant articles with useful information are always welcome.  News articles and press releases must be current.  Adding articles simply to get the benefit of links back to a source site is not allowed.

Compelling Content

We ask all our editors to answer one simple question.  Is your content good enough that you would email it to your friends?  If not, then do not bother posting it here.  All articles should be brief and to the point.  We want to ensure the best possible user experience.

External Links

We realize that good content will include links back to one or more source sites.  We also realize that it is easy to abuse these links.  In most cases articles with more than 5 external links (including image links) or multiple links to the same target page will not be approved.

Images

Authors are encouraged to include relevant images in their articles along with the appropriate image titles and any relevant external links.  However, articles with images that are inappropriate or attempt to deceive the visitor in any way will not be approved.

Content Ownership

It is critical that the author owns the content and any images embedded within that content.  We realize that most images on the web have no clear ownership and those images can be used.  If third parties contest  image ownership, the affected images may be removed.  The author is directly responsible for any legal action/costs that arise because of illegal image use.

RSS Feeds

We have the ability to poll RSS feeds and automatically ingest articles.  Please Contact Us for specific guidelines.  WordPress users will find that this process takes only a few minutes to setup and requires the use of the Feed Wrangler plugin.  For best results the All-in-One SEO plugin should also be implemented.